is a monorail

Monorail

A monorail is a rail-based transportation system based on a single rail, which acts as its sole support and its guideway. The term is also used variously to describe the beam of the system, or the vehicles traveling on such a beam or track...

 station on the Osaka Monorail located in Ibaraki

Ibaraki, Osaka

is a city located in Osaka, Japan. It is a suburban city of Osaka city and a part of Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area. Literally Ibaraki in English means Wild Trees or Thorny trees....

, Osaka

Osaka

is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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Layout

There is an island platform and two tracks elevated. The platform is sealed in with glass walls and doors.

History

The original name of the station, Ibaraki, was the same as the city's main JR train station

Ibaraki Station

thumb|right|250px|none|East Entrancethumb|right|250px|none|Ticket Gate is a train station on the West Japan Railway Company JR Kyoto Line in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.-Layout:...

although there was no direct connection between the JR station and the monorail station. This caused confusion among passengers and finally the monorail station was renamed.

• June 1, 1990: Station openes as Ibaraki Station (茨木駅)
• April 1, 1997: Renamed as Unobe Station

Stations next to Unobe